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expedition32today at 2:24 AM2 repliesview on HN

There are no European companies that need them so why build datacenters for American companies to profit from? We don't need to be colonised by tech bros for effectively no gain.


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Schiendelmantoday at 2:32 AM

A week and a half ago, I was at VivaTech in Paris, where I listened to dozens of European founders complain about the EU AI regulations - not because there was something they wanted to do that they were prohibited from doing, but because the way they are written, they have no idea what they can or can't do.

They're looking at how to put servers in Norway and Iceland specifically because they can figure out what the rules are, and in the EU, they cannot.

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andsoitistoday at 2:32 AM

If you build it you can profit from it by renting out capacity. This is what SpaceX is doing, for example. If you control the hardware...

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